Word: ticklishness
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...sort of mutual logic. Last spring Lodge told the President that he wanted to return to public service, specifically that he wanted an ambassadorship.* Lodge, who saw World War II action as deputy chief of staff of the IV Army Corps in Italy, is keenly interested in the ticklish problems of guerrilla warfare against the Communist Viet Cong. In Lodge, the President gets a New Englander who speaks blunt English and fluent French, the language of the South Vietnamese leaders, and can be expected to use both effectively whether smoothing U.S. relations with President Ngo Dinh Diem or prodding Diem...
...like the social column in the Oblivionville Weekly Gazette; now they dare old grads to think about all manner of profound topics related to education. A measure of this drastic change is that 219 alumni magazines (out of about 500 in the U.S.) are currently tackling the once too ticklish subject of academic freedom. In fact, their 1,634,000 readers are all reading the same article-a deftly done 16-page insert titled "What Right Has This Man?" Their interest reflects the remarkable success of the insert's ambitious author...
...acres to be bulldozed could find immediate revocation in one of the new units, since the first of the three story buildings of the project were scheduled to be put up on an empty lot. Donnelly has no large Negro population. Thus the project was free of the sometimes ticklish problem of relocating Negro families in government housing. Moreover, a new $2,500,000 school already built in Donnelly Field made up the City's one third of the renewal costs; under the 1954 housing act, the FHHA share was to be two-thirds. In effect, Cambridge was getting...
...EDUCATION will be dusted off and given another try. It will probably include federal help for elementary and secondary schools, aid to higher education, and a vocational aid program. The Administration apparently intends to tackle again the ticklish matter of public v. parochial school...
...swat. Still bedazzled by the promise of the air age, he experimented with a variety of inventions, patented a system by which planes could pick up air mail and other bundles from sea sleds while still in flight, and established pioneering research into the principles and mechanics of the ticklish art of mid-air refueling-which is today a commonplace technique used by pilots of the U.S. Strategic Air Command...